Italo Calvino said this. And these words resonate with the personal and professional journey of Marta Zuddas, who is deaf, but with a determination and willpower that have helped her overcome all ...

Numbers in the Dark is an assorted lot of short and very short texts by Italo Calvino, and it is oddly difficult to know how to set about reading it. Paradoxically, coming up against the problem of ...

Italo Calvino, Saggi 1945–1985, ed. by Mario Barenghi (Milan: Mondadori, 1995), p. 266 (henceforth abbreviated as S); Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature fantastique (Paris: Seuil, 1970).